The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a 1904 study published by Sigmund Freud. The subtitle is in the first edition About forget promises, bungled, superstition and error, in later editions, you will also find " superstition " instead of " superstition ".

Content

Freud leads in his study of his theory that a large part of everyday blunders, such as the promise to forget prescribing, lay hands, laying objects and other human errors and mistakes is an expression of unconscious intentions. So it is only at first glance to random or meaningless mistakes or accidentally, but actually provide meaningful mechanisms of the unconscious.

The psychopathology of everyday life is less a discovery than the application of Freud's method of psychoanalysis on a well-known phenomenon. So Freud was able to draw on a wealth of material, among others in the literature. For example, will in Fontane's L' Adultera a young woman her husband throw a ball, but it throws "accidentally" standing next to a young man to whom she - has chosen and who later became her lover is - even unconsciously. For the psychological significance of slips of the tongue leads Freud points to the works of Shakespeare and Schiller. Likewise, forgetting or incorrect recall of names and facts comprehensible motives are assumed from time immemorial.

With psychoanalytic methodology Freud also reveals less obvious psychological motives of failures. He comes in the analysis of accidents partly to the result if it were unconsciously sought self-harm.

The book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life belongs to the present day to a basic work of psychoanalysis.

The assistance provided by slip revelation of emotions that you really want to conceal, but often breaking track comically, called Freudian slip.

Criticism

An in-depth critique of Freudian theory to failures from a critical perspective text was wearing the Italian philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro in his 1974 published book Il lapsus freudiano: Psychoanalysis e critica testuale ( German: The Freudian slip: psychoanalysis and textual criticism ) ago.